Remember way back in November when your most insufferable Facebook friends were insisting there was zero difference between Trump and Clinton? Besides, they cynically insisted, Trump would never do all of that crazy stuff he kept promising! Who cares whom you vote for?
Fair-pay rights for the people who build houses, install piping, or wire electrical circuits have been slowly but surely crippled over the past 50 years. Unions have been broken, worker protections have been destroyed, and formerly blue-voting laborers have increasingly turned to people like Donald Trump to ensure their messages are heard instead of supporting a Democratic Party that has become blind to their economic struggles.
Children sleeping on the streets. Strained police, fire-rescue, and emergency medical services. An increase in homelessness, robberies, and crime. A resolution from Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman paints a bleak picture of the potential pitfalls of medical marijuana, which was legalized in Florida with support from 71 percent of voters last November.
Miami has seen a lull in Zika cases lately, which makes sense because it’s low season for Florida’s mosquitoes. But once the weather warms up, clouds of Aedes aegypti will return with the virus. Fighting the virus hasn’t been easy. Pesticides aren’t very effective and have run up against public pushback. But a new study says another problem has also hampered anti-Zika efforts: the flood of memes, #fakenews articles, and straight-up incorrect reporting that followed the virus.
Miami Beach city commissioners plan to require that parking garages built in the future can be converted into housing.
Dear Stoner: Is there such a thing as organic marijuana? I recently bought a pre-roll, and on the label were things like ammonium nitrate, isopropyl alcohol, nitric acid and indole-3-butyric acid, just to name a few. Mike B. Dear Mike: Those sound like growing nutrients (although the isopropyl alcohol…
Donald Trump’s travel ban last week was directed at seven majority-Muslim countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Sudan. Trinidad, which sits seven miles off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean, is nowhere near any of those nations. That fact, however, apparently did not stop border patrol agents…
Miami’s immigrant community is understandably paranoid about what the next four years of President Donald Trump’s administration will look like. Trump has pledged to rid the nation of undocumented immigrants and has spent the past 18 months or so injecting fear and bile into the American consciousness. Everybody is on edge right now.
It’s February, and — sorry! — South Florida sports kinda suck. The Marlins are months from returning and will probably be bad when they do. The Heat is driving its tank in the wrong direction. The Panthers aren’t anything to write home about. And football is finally leaving us for good following this weekend’s Super Bowl.
For 23 years, a science station on Virginia Key tied to the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has carefully tracked conditions in Biscayne Bay. Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the school, has never seen anything like the data coming in since September.
The civic, political, and intellectual weight of yesterday’s protest against Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez was huge. Political players like Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez and Florida’s American Civil Liberties Union Director Howard Simon turned up to speak in front of roughly 300 demonstrators. But the most poignant moment…
Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who is Fidel Castro’s nephew by marriage, has never been afraid to make ridiculous claims about his uncle’s regime. In 2009, Diaz-Balart actually argued that people who want to end the Cuban embargo are just like Nazi sympathizers. (They aren’t.) Yesterday, Diaz-Balart made yet another factually dubious Cuba-related statement…
Uncle Luke predicts the Liberty City kid will be Super Bowl MVP.
On Friday, the morning after Mayor Carlos Gimenez kowtowed to Donald Trump’s demand that Miami stop protecting undocumented immigrants, a crowd descended on County Hall to protest. That’s a pretty normal occurrence in America, where residents have the right to tell their elected leaders they’re wrong. What the crowd found…
Richard Corcoran, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, is ardently pro-life. He’s spoken before the Florida Family Policy Council, a pro “human life” (read: anti-abortion) advocacy group, and earlier this month expressed public support for the anti-abortion “March for Life” in Washington, D.C. But Corcoran’s concern for human life…
Jack Black was standing in the dark-green, jungle-like backyard of South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard. The actor gazed at the blue-black pond with its prowling bass and sunfish, then up at the roof. Gleaming white solar panels, the slender, geeky Stoddard explained, power his whole house, including air conditioning and…
More than six million people follow DJ Khaled’s insanely popular Snapchat account. But this past weekend, as many of his celebrity peers spoke out against Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, Khaled seemingly tiptoed around the divisive issue, simply posting a video of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an order threatening federal funding to “sanctuary cities” that won’t fully comply with his immigration crackdown. It took less than 24 hours for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to crumble.
Marco Rubio is less a U.S. senator than a wide-eyed college freshman, lost in the gleaming halls of his institution, deeply curious but frankly very confused and a little frightened by his ignorance. Sure, the people of Florida elected him based on his promise to serve as a brake on…
By 3:30 p.m. Sunday, three Miami-Dade County Police wagons were parked outside Departure Gate 9 at Miami International Airport. A battalion of county cops stood elbow-to-elbow in the middle of the street, at least one clad in a K-9 Unit vest. Multiple times, the cops had threatened to arrest members of the more than 300-person crowd that had gathered at MIA to protest President Trump’s Muslim-travel ban.
To initiate a recall vote in Miami-Dade County, one must first send a proposal to the county clerk, who must, according to county law, make sure your legal petition is up to snuff, legally speaking. You’re free to try to recall any elected official in Miami, from the county property appraiser to anyone on the county commission to — oh, just for the sake of argument — the county mayor himself.
County Hall went on lockdown this afternoon as a group gathered outside to protest Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s order to county officials to comply with all of Donald Trump’s strict immigration plans. Guards blocked the doors. The Metromover stop was closed. And then Rep. Keith Ellison crashed the party. The co-chair…
